Tandberg Data Blog

Businesses data is the most important asset of a company. Data protection is essential in order to continue after a catastrophic data loss event. Data loss could mean the loss of information which can never be recovered or rebuilt. A good backup strategy is vital for business stability and should be incorporated into every business continuity plan.

As I was writing this post, I took a nostalgic look back at our RDX Removable Disk Technology that was first launched in 2006 with a SATA I QuikStor drive with the mission to replace the mix of entry level tape technologies at that time. 13 years later, it is successfully continuing with that mission.

The European Union’s GDPR, with its eleven chapters of 99 articles, is intended to secure the protection of privacy and the processing of personal data but can be quite intimidating to review and understand. Many areas of data protection have not been newly regulated by the GDPR and many businesses are already following general data protection rules for many years. But they now must face the painful possibility of penalties and/or the constant fear of receiving formal warnings, not following the rules. The regulations have put small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) data management policies to the test.

Where is that file? How often do you ask yourself that question? You´re not alone! With more files and growing storage capacity, it becomes harder to find files. External disks have made it even worse with their big capacities and cheap price. Now there is a new question: Where is that disk with that file?

Tandberg Data has been a leader in back up storage solutions with its RDX® technology for more than a decade. Let’s take a look back on the milestones and significant achievements it took to achieve this decade of sucess.

Technology changes over time and the operational workflows for companies change as well. Data protection is one area that is a constant in that the requirements to protect data will continue. What is changing is the method for protecting information. The current workflows used by many in performing backups are unsustainable given the increase in the amount of data and the operational cost increases. New approaches using backup to disk and remote replication to create the protected data copies are more prevalent now and continue to be improved with new technologies introduced.

As I attended a number of broadcast and video events this spring, the future of the storage landscape became very clear to me. Storage in the form of disks has become commoditized by falling prices and easy connectivity. Even high performance storage is moving into the consumer space with technologies like Thunderbolt. Many professionals collect large volumes of data, decentralised and without any clear planning. And who can blame them? When you can buy terabytes of cheap and fast RAID, why would you spend too much time strategising? Just store it all!

The management and protection of data is critical to the future success of every small and medium-sized organisation. This means that IT leaders must do what it takes to guarantee that their data will be in their hands at all times when they need it the most.